Chapter 73: Recruitment day!

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"Damn it! It's still so early in the morning and the queue was already this long?!" said a student who just came.

"Hais, be patient fellow brother. According to the number of people here, we should be able to register after queuing for 2 hours!" replied another student who was in front of him.

"What, 2 hours?! Curses!!"

At first, Duan Li and the gang had only opened up one booth to cater the needs of the application process today. But who would've thought that people was already waiting outside the gate of the residence court so early in the morning?

Therefore, Shen Lu decided to open another two booths after the public was disgruntled for waiting too long. Furthermore, Duan Li had also allowed the people waiting to enter the garden area of his residence court so that they could cultivate while waiting.

"To think that the new Lord class, Duan Li, was someone this rich, he sure has deeply hidden himself for our information network to not be able to expect this at all!" said a student that has a Strategist token on his waist.

"I know right? My sources told me that he was just a pauper from a faraway Xuan village! But look at this residence court, this has to be the most expensive out of all of them!" commented another student with a strategist token as well.

A senior student contemplated for a moment before adding his own thoughts towards their conversation, "Could it be that he has someone that can pull the strings to be able to purchase this expensive residence court?"

"That's impossible! The administration was supervised by both the vice-principal and the principal himself! They were both from a different faction, it would take a miracle for them to collude together and allow such a thing to happen!" interjected his friend as they continued to speculate and reassessed Duan Li's worth.

Meanwhile, Duan Li was getting a little bit anxious with the increasing number of students that came into his residence court. The garden was slowly getting crowded by the minute as people started to push around, getting impatient from waiting.

The early birds were people that had got wind of the news early, and they decided to camp out directly in front of the residence court overnight. Whereas the people that had just arrived were those that came due to words of mouth that was spread like wildfire in the academy.

Shen Lu even went to the extent of spending some of his money to print out a lot of flyers and released them from the air as he flew around this morning.

At first when the people who knew about the recruitment but wasn't interested in it picked up the flyer, they sneered in disdain over their effort. But when they read the details of the location, their eyes immediately bulged out from their sockets and bolted straight into the air!

This residence court was something that was worth more than 50 high quality spirit stones to purchase! Just the fact that Duan Li was able to bought it, had already told them how capable the former was in his financial means alone.

If they were to be able to serve under such a Lord, their life and cultivation would definitely be smooth sailing!

This was because, even though the academy would give them coupons that entitled them for some free resources for their cultivation, it was quite limited and everything else must be purchased.

With higher cultivation realm, naturally the price would become steeper too. Therefore, the students had to find their own source of income by opening their own stores and workshops.

Roughly around 90 percent of the revenues made inside the academy were by private sectors that was owned and managed by the students faction alone, only some were controlled by the empire and other external influence.

And as such, who wouldn't want to serve under an extremely wealthy Lord class like Duan Li? All of these people that came were trying their luck, to see if they got the affinity for it.

"The number of people here are beyond my expectations, the total applicants that has signed up so far was already beyond 500! We just opened an hour ago too!" exclaimed Duan Li in a shock.

After making a decision, Duan Li instructed Shen Lu and the rest to close up their booth within one hour and to continue the recruitment next day.

This was because it was already approaching the time for class. If a lot of students were to escape their class just to sign up at their booth, some teachers would definitely filed a complaint to the administration, and he might get a reprimand for it.

This was especially the case when Duan Li found out that most of the applicants decided to stay and cultivate due to the rich and dense spiritual Qi in the garden. The more unruly ones that took advantage of the chaos even had the guts to pluck out some of his neatly arranged medicinal herbs and koi fishes from the pond illegally.

Naturally, this was something that Duan Li could not endure. Thus, he flicked the residence court token to expel these opportunist and thieving bastards out forcefully and reclaimed back his stolen goods.

And then, as an opportunist himself, Duan Li demanded compensation from them by threatening to report the matter of their unethical misconduct to the academy!

One had to know that Duan Li was someone with a passive personality. Thus, if others were to go overboard with their behaviour, he would definitely go a little more overboard than them as well.

When Shen Lu and the rest saw this side of his, they could see a new personality to Duan Li that they didn't knew beforehand. Somehow, this forceful action made by Duan Li onto those offenders caused them to start feeling reverence towards him as their Lord.

Now, they were more confident to serve under him, as the surrounding people becomes more reserved with their actions while they were inside the residence court and was no longer showing dissatisfied expression as well.

In addition, even those that sneered in disdain towards Duan Li as they thought of him as just another idiot silkpants immediately casted out such thoughts when they witnessed that scene.

...

Somewhere atop of a giant boulder that was surrounded by forest, was a muscular figure that looked extremely vicious, sat down cross-legged while emitting a tremendous amount spiritual Qi fluctuations. His long dark hair streaked along the wind, as his red pupils gleamed with a dangerous aura to it.

This figure was holding a blue jade slip, and he reviewed the message that he had just received from someone he hired.

"Kekeke... interesting!!" this enigmatic figure spoke out.

GUAKK! GUAKK!!

When his voice echoed around the forest, a lot of crow birds suddenly flew away in panic as they sensed a thick battle intent coming out from that voice.

...

Within a pavilion, two students that bore the looks of a scholar were playing the game of Shogi together. One of them has a brown hair, and another a violet hair.

Although they were extremely casual with their actions as they moved the little pieces across, the board itself was emitting a very terrifying aura, as if it was not a board, but a real battlefield where numerous cultivators clashed to the death instead!

At this moment, someone walked in as she kneeled onto the floor with one knee towards the violet haired student.

"Master, the reports said that the value of Duan Li, the new Lord class student were being reassessed by the Strategist club. The manager has then decided to increase his worth to the level 4. Thus, his name has climbed onto the top 200 ranks." said this young female student, her voice was tender and her figure could be described as beautiful, albeit lacking the qualities of a matured maiden.

Hearing this, the violet haired guy has his interest slightly piqued as he raised one of his brows and moved another piece forward.

"Oh? Continue to observe him. If my deductions are not wrong, it won't be long before his level was increased to the level 5 or even 6!" he said casually as he waved his hands to dismissed the young girl.

"I agree." nodded the brown haired student as he also moved another piece forward across the board.

The both of the scholarly-looking student then continued to play Shogi, as if the previous matter was already been put at the back of their head.

...

Within a residence court, there was a female student who sat atop of a throne with expensive accessories that perfectly defined her ravishing figure. Her robes were as smooth as a silk, and her hair also shone with a bright azure colour, as if this person was part of the royal family.

Her face could only be described with one word, divine!

At this moment, both of her eyes was closed shut, as she used one of her hand to support her head on the armrest. She looked aloof just like that, but it didn't make her less beautiful. In fact, she even appeared more bewitching!

When she finally opened her eyes, it seemed as if she had grasped everything that was happening, and a mysterious smile appeared on her face as she then sat upright, looking extremely dignified and graceful.

"Hear my command, if there is anyone that were to plot against this new Lord class student, whose name is Duan Li, you are to report to me directly!" she said. Her voice was enchanting, as if it was from the angels themselves.

On her waist, was a Spellcaster class token.

"We hear and obey! Rest assured my lady, we will inform you as soon as we got the information from our intelligence!" replied the two grown men simultaneously, whom single-kneed onto the floor.

They were wearing flashy armors with bright blue capes, and their appearance was quite graceful as well. On their waist, was a token that was uniquely different than the tokens given to the students of the academy.

They were the tokens of official Knights, the main battle force of the empire!

...

As numerous influential figures on the background was aroused by the stir that was caused by Duan Li unconsciously, the man himself was currently busy understanding the floor map of the classrooms inside the academy building.

Eventhough he has a photographic memory and that he could remember everything with just a single glance, finding direction was always one of his worse forte!

Thus, he decided to summon Daelius from his spatial ring, and let the latter point out the direction towards his first class.

Most of the female students that recognized the little cub, was following along from the back of Duan Li as they watched the little cub walking slowly while wagging its tail left and right, causing the female students to cringe with high-pitched voice every once in a while.

"Awwww! This little cub is so cute!"

"Look at the way it moved! Where can I find such a pet?"

When the other male students saw the numerous amount of female students following behind Duan Li on his back like some avid cult followers, naturally the idiotic and dumb ones had misunderstood the whole situation.

"Damn it! He is showing off right now! He is not even that handsome compared to me!"

"Curses! I curse your whole ancestor! How dare you hogged all those female students to yourself!"

"Heh, those girls must be following behind him because they wanted to fawned all over him to be accepted as his followers!"

"Hey look! Isn't that the rumored ronin samurai? It turns out that he was actually a rich guy! How envious, I also wanted to become rich and has a lot of girls following me around!"

Thankfully, when the bell rang, all these female students scrambled towards their own respective classes. Otherwise, if they were to continue following him around, it would definitely attract the attention of people inside his class later on.

"I am finally here!" exclaimed Duan Li as excitement filled him.

At first, he thought that becoming a student of the Jixue Knights Academy would be a troublesome responsibility. But who knew, he was actually enjoying himself right now!

Not to mention, he always loved to learn new knowledge himself! He now felt that it was the correct decision to follow along the words of his mother in entering this academy!

Although he had memories of having classes as well, those were memories that the current he, had not experienced himself personally, thus he was still quite excited.

Standing in front of the door of his first class, the placque atop of the door reads:

"Appraiser Class!"

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